Posts Tagged ‘Alec Utgoff’

New Blood Case 2 centres around the mysterious death on a building site where, to us viewers there’s no mystery – we know what happened from the start, but the cops have to figure it all out because the baddies certainly aren’t going to spill the beans. The site is where the Scimitar is being […]

Power Monkeys, without too much difficulty to calculate, comes from the same team as last year’s Ballot Monkeys, a superb satirical side-swipe at the general election written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, the content so fresh that it’s written on the day and edited so close to transmission that I think, for one episode […]

Our Kind of Traitor comes from the pen of John le Carré, whose The Night Manager was recently a smash hit on BBC1 with their adaptation, and could spawn a second series. It centres around young Oxford academic Perry Makepeace (Ewan McGregor, who had an uncredited Obi-Wan Kenobi voice appearance in Star Wars Episode VII: […]

Mission Impossible Rogue Nation is out this week on Blu-ray and DVD, and to celebrate it, commuters and passersby were given the chance to relive the incredible opening scene from the worldwide blockbuster film, by participating in a virtual reality experience at London’s Victoria Station. Pop on an Oculus Rift headset (so damn good with […]

Mission Impossible Rogue Nation is the fifth in the series which is now almost 20 years old, and I’m pleased to confirm that this is the best film in the series since the first one. While I never saw the TV series (it was before my time), I loved Brian De Palma’s 1996 spy/action caper. […]

San Andreas stars Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) as Rainier Wolfcastle, aka Ray. He’s a maverick helicopter rescue pilot, rescuing helicopters in danger all around the area where they have that San Andreas fault thing. Occasionally, he also helps damsels in distress, starting with a girl whose car careers down a mountainside through no fault […]